– Micky Yoochun (박유천)

This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.

Park Yoochun (Korean: 박유천, Japanese: ユチョン; born June 4, 1986), better known by his stage namesMicky Yoochun (in South Korea); and is a Korean singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He debuted as a member of South Korean boy band TVXQ, known as Dong Bang Shin Ki in South Korea and Tohoshinki in Japan. Currently, he is best known as a member of South Korean boy band JYJ, who made their global debut in October 2010.

Early life

Yuchun was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, until his family immigrated to the United States when he was in the sixth grade.[1] He lived in Fairfax, Virginia, where he attended Holmes Middle School and Chantilly High School. He was scouted by Brothers Entertainment and went back to South Korea, where he joined SM Entertainment. He has a younger brother named Park Yoohwan, who is also known as Ricky Park.

Acting career

Yuchun has appeared on two televised shows with his band-mates, Banjun Theater and Vacation.

He also made his successful debut in Japan with the mobile drama by BeeTV Drama <Beautiful Love ～君がいれば～ (Beautiful Love ~If you were here ~)>. He played the main male figure, Young Soo, who is the heir of the rich company.

In 2010, he starred in the KBS drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal (성균관스캔들), portraying Lee Seon Joon, a rich and smart student who falls in love with a woman who is disguised as a man. He has received the “Rookie of the Year award”, “Netizens award” and “Best Couple award” at the 2010 KBS Drama Awards ceremony, 47th Paeksang Arts Award (2011) and the 6th Seoul International Drama Awards (2011).

In 2011, he starred in the MBC drama Miss Ripley with Lee Da-hae, Kim Seung-woo, and Kang Hye-jeong.

In 2012, he starred in the SBS drama Rooftop Prince with Han Ji-min. Yoochun’s third role was Lee Gak, a Joseon era prince who time-travels 300 years to the present day, and also as Yong Tae Yong, third generation of conglomerate. The drama started airing on March 21, 2012. On August 30, Yoochun won “Most Popular Actor in TV Drama” at the 48th Baeksang Arts Awards, crowning him as the most popular actor for two years in row.

On November 7, 2012, Yoochun returned to television by participating in his fourth drama, MBC’s Missing You,[16] in which he portrays homicide detective Han Jung-woo who, in the past when he was fourteen years old, was separated from his first love.

Having played the main character in a SBS and a MBC drama during 2012, Yoochun attended both networks’ drama award shows. At the MBC Drama Awards on December 30th, the actor won the “Excellence Actor in a Mini-Series” Award for his role in Missing You. At the SBS Drama Awards the following day on the 31st, he received four more awards–“Excellence Actor in a Drama Special”, one of the “Top 10 Stars”, “Best Couple” (shared with Han Ji-min), and the “Netizen Popularity” Award–at the SBS Drama Awards for his performance in Rooftop Prince.

With all these acting accomplishments added to the list of awards Yoochun has already won since debuting as an actor in 2010, he now had achieved a so-called “Grand Slam” by having won trophies from each of South Korea’s three major television channels, SBS,MBC, and KBS.

Musical career

TVXQ

Main article: TVXQ

JYJ

Main article: JYJ

Yoochun is with JYJ after filing a lawsuit against SM Entertainment to nullify his contract. The lawsuit is still pending.

Solo singing career

Micky is featured in “Tokyo Lovelight” from DJ Makai’s Stars (mini-album). He and band-mate U-know are also featured rappers in “Heartquake” from Super Junior’s Third Album, Sorry, Sorry.

For his 2nd drama “Miss Ripley“, Yoochun sang “너를 위한 빈자리 (The Empty Space for You)”. It appeared first in the ninth episode of the drama and was released in “Miss Ripley” OST (Part 3).

Song writer

Micky has written and composed several songs that have appeared on TVXQ’s Korean and Japanese albums. As a member of SM Town, he contributed to the 2007 winter album Only Love with his composition “Evergreen”. Micky also wrote and composed “사랑 안녕 사랑 (Love Bye Love)”, featured on the group’s fourth Korean studio album Mirotic. For the Trick project, he wrote the lyrics to his solo “My Girlfriend”, entirely in English.

“Kiss the Baby Sky”, one of the A-side’s for TVXQ’s twenty-fifth Japanese single, marked the first time that one of the songs both written and composed by Micky was released on a Japanese single.

With band-mates U-Know and Xiah, Micky wrote the rap lyrics to “Love After Love”, which appeared on their second Korean studio album, Rising Sun. For the group’s Japanese releases, Micky wrote and co-composed “Kiss Shita Mama, Sayonara” (Kissしたまま、さよなら lit. As We Kiss, Goodbye?)with Hero for T, TVXQ’s third Japanese album.[11] In September 2009, he and Hero released a self-written duet, “Colors (Melody and Harmony)/Shelter”, which was used as the image song for Hello Kitty’s 35th anniversary.

His musical career continually expressed even after the separation of TVXQ. Micky was able to compose in the new albums of JYJ. In JYJ’s first international album The Beginning, which was released in 2010, Micky contributed by composing in one of the tracks “I Love You”. In January 2011, Micky even played role as lyricist and composer in their new music essay called Their Rooms “Our Story” for the song “이름없는 노래 Part 1 (A Song Without A Name, Part 1)”. In addition, he also did the rap-making in Kim Junsu’s song “Mission”. For JYJ’s first Korean album In Heaven, released late Nov 2011, Yoochun helped write and compose “Get Out” with Kim Jaejoong.

“Red…makes me think of the members who will continue having a very close relationship even in the future!”

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-Micky Yoochun-

"We have always been together as 5.
As the others are not with us right now, it’s embarrassing to say this, but I felt the love from them.
Therefore, I do not wish to forget the most important thing to me, and this song was written based on this feeling."
- Micky Yoochun during Colors promotions (FRaU November Issue) 2009

-About Dong Bang Shin Ki?-

- A thing which I treasure the most
-Micky Yoohun, Nikkan Daily SPorts 2009